Quality searching in WP.org repository is impossible, though I hate to say it. It’s either filters don’t work, or the developers put all sorts of keywords in which don’t apply to their themes. Try filtering by “one-column” and get a ton of themes which are anything but one column. 🙂

Thank you in advance for any advice.

If this forum is not the place for such questions, please feel free to move my post where appropriate.

Please don’t think I didn’t try that myself before asking for advice. 🙂 I already said that quality searching at WP.org rep is impossible. It will only work when devs start tagging their themes correctly. Which is never, I’m afraid. 🙁

So thank you for trying to help, but it would’ve been nice if you actually looked at what you’re suggesting.

Out of 27 themes you suggest only 9 are more or less one column (including Ryu, that has post sidebars, and Saka, which is a bare bones theme with a standard sidebar in the bottom). 6 of those are outdated (as in, 2015-2016). And I’ve already seen all of them.

I know there are more one column themes in the repository. Alas, filtering by features doesn’t work. Searching for “one column” keyword brings up old stuff. What other keywords I might need to use? English is not my native language, so maybe I’m missing something?

You see, I was hoping that since humans are more clever than machines, somebody might be able to suggest something specific. It cannot be that no minimal themes are developed these days, can it?